Crony capitalism related news.
This is a part of the robot revolution we hadn’t considered. There are few professions more crony than lawyer. (Certainly not all lawyers are working the system and a good one is not a bad thing to have –...
We will never forget what these guys pulled.
Easy money creates malinvestment.
So the socialist government blows up the economy by instituting all sorts of price controls and regulations and now arrests store managers because they are dealing with the catastrophe caused by the clueless government.
…of the day. No spin. No tabloid trash.
(From Reuters) U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley set a Saturday afternoon deadline for a woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault to decide if and how she will testify, the New York Times reported. The...
(From Fox News) Dozens of female colleagues, classmates and friends of Brett Kavanaugh rallied in support of the embattled Supreme Court nominee on Friday, saying they don’t believe the sexual assault allegation against him. The women, who last week wrote...
(From The Guardian) Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein deemed “inaccurate” a report that he spoke with colleagues last year about the possibility of removing Donald Trump from office under the 25th amendment and about making secret recordings of the president....
(From AP News) Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency says 24 people are dead and 53 wounded in an attack on a military parade in the country’s oil-rich southwest. . . . No group immediately claimed responsibility for the assault in...
(From The Guardian) The Trump administration, in its continued immigration crackdown, has arrested more than 40 people who came forward to help undocumented migrant children, in a move that is sparking alarm among advocates. Parents, relatives and friends of children...
(From The Washington Free Beacon) White House National Security Adviser John Bolton confirmed this week that China carried out the cyber attack on the Office of Personnel Management in the theft of more than 22 million sensitive records on American...
(From Reuters) Ecuador in 2017 gave Wikileaks founder Julian Assange a diplomatic post in Russia but rescinded it after Britain refused to give him diplomatic immunity, according to an Ecuadorean government document seen by Reuters. The aborted effort suggests Ecuadorean...
(From Fox News) Minnesota state Rep. Jim Knoblach announced Friday that he would be ending his reelection campaign amid allegations he inappropriately touched his adult daughter for over 10 years. . . . Knoblach’s 23-year-old daughter, Laura Knoblach, came to...
(From UPI) A dam containing a lake owned by utility Duke Energy was breached by floodwaters Friday, potentially sending coal ash into the Cape Fear River, the North Carolina-based company said. The company said floodwaters from Hurricane Florence overtopped the...
(From AP News) The head of the federal disaster response agency used government vehicles without proper authorization, but will not lose his job over it, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Friday. Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator William “Brock” Long...
Every generation seems to have its gaggle of statist economists who get rich while talking about the “evils” of the market.
Here’s a newsflash. If you are going to Cornell, no matter your ethnicity, your gender, your disability status, your age, your ethnic origin, YOU ARE PRIVILEGED.
Perhaps this is some form of voter suppression. Not everyone knows how to buy a stamp. Why should someone who doesn’t know how to buy a stamp be denied the right to vote? This is clearly discriminatory. I mean,...
The classification of information is an interesting tool of the political class. There are certainly instances where information should be classified, and say kept off of one’s private server in ones bathroom. But, ahem, the classification process is often used to...
